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The Tolerance Zone which the governor of Tlaxcala, Enrique Ruiz Peña proposes, has opened the discussion around sex work and prostitution.

The sex workers talk about the discrimination they face in their work, and how by dedicating themselves to it they are criticized and many times not respected and are abused by the police, the clients, and sometimes even by their families, witch lowers their self-esteem, allowing this type of violence. But upon organizing themselves and having psychological support, they have come to realize that their work is like any other which serves to make money for one’s family, and they claim it as a respectable job. Because of this they don’t speak of prostitution but of sex work. In the collectives they organize themselves so that their work is less difficult and dangerous, and more rewarding, because being on the street the pimps threaten to take away most of the money that they make without themselves doing anything, leaving the workers to be sexually exploited. That is why there is opposition to the Tolerance Zone, as it will return the women into the hands of pimps, who are the police, the hotel, restaurant, and pub owners. The governor and the business owners never talked about sex work, but about legalizing prostitution (which is illegal almost everywhere in the country) in a specified area for adult entertainment and knowing that significant sums of money will be moved since “that’s where the business is” as well allow the trafficking of women to the United States, as well as the sexual exploitation of children, since the corruption and the mafias of traffickers colluded with the authorities would allowed it to be hidden in the VIP zones.

In this second part of the video of Apizaco, several workers talked with AiM to tell us their experiences and problems, and one of them explained to us through her personal experience the difference between working in a collective and being exploited by a pimp.